Saw Zach Bryan (Houston) Friday night - he and his band were excellent. Randy Rodgers was Saturday night (Columbus) an they were solid as always.
Do you know roughly what time The Strokes came on? Going tomorrow and I am always bad at guessing what time these concerts actually start.AustinAg2012 said:
The Strokes/RHCP last night at the Alamodome. Good stuff overall, but wish The Strokes had a longer set. Kiedes doesn't age.
Bunk Moreland said:
Looks like Rogers got a combo of Houston/Dallas set.
I enjoyed a couple of the new songs live as well.
CFTXAG10 said:
Just got home. RHCP kicked a** ! Great show! The Strokes were good too but wished they had played longer.
johnnyblaze36 said:
Dead & Company in Dallas last weekend was incredible and so much fun. Best I've seen them play and I'm sad it's the last time I'll ever be able to catch them.
Onto Billy Strings this Friday and Saturday in Austin. Don't miss them!
Correct. Watching the live stream from Raleigh right now. He's such a great fit. I went to the three Fare Thee Well shows in Chicago in 2015 that had Trey Anastasio in Jerry's place and he was awesome but Mayer is such a better singer. He's killing it tonight.Tailgate88 said:johnnyblaze36 said:
Dead & Company in Dallas last weekend was incredible and so much fun. Best I've seen them play and I'm sad it's the last time I'll ever be able to catch them.
Onto Billy Strings this Friday and Saturday in Austin. Don't miss them!
John Mayer on guitar, right? Would have loved to have seen that. Saw the Dead in Vegas 20 some odd years ago. Quite the memory. Well, the part I remember anyway.
My son went to this as well (also went last year). He said at least this year (first year was in Seattle) that the crowd was more into The Strokes (his favorite band).CFTXAG10 said:
Just got home. RHCP kicked a** ! Great show! The Strokes were good too but wished they had played longer.
Per setlist.fm, john taylor broke a string., but per video below (at 25-40 seconds) looks like either that or some other technical difficulty with the bass. I never heard the bass 'drop out', so it may have never been live from the start of the song.dmart90 said:
They messed up at the start of Hungry Like the Wolf and started over. Never seen that before. They owned it, told us the f'ed up, and said they didn't give a toss.
BCSWguru said:
Also saw Duran Duran at Moody. That place is great for music shows. Setlist was amazing. Ticketmaster fees, though, are another story.
Unrelated, did anyone catch Weezer last night in Dallas? Setlist looks awesome, just wondering if they're still mailing it in.
Same. With stubhub they have an option to show the per ticket price with fees and I prefer searching that way if i'm needing shop for aftermarket tickets so I know what my actual cost will really be rather than get all the way to the checkout screen to see how much I'm actually supposed to pay. I'm sure they have done studies that show people are more likely to pay when the fees are added to the end and are literally one more click away from the purchase rather than see the all-in cost up front.62strat said:
I've long wished for tickets to be sold with fees included. I'm in the camp that if I have to pay fees, I'd simply rather not know how much in fees I'm paying.
Like airlines did a while back.
Why not? Good laws are allowed to exist. What we have now is the free market in action and we havent exactly benefited from it. Of course no one is forcing anyone to buy anything. But slapping an extra $20 or more on the price of an item as you are at the checkout process isnt acting in good faith either. Yes, i would rather see sales tax included in the price of an item before i checkout too. If a company is allowed to own/control all of the large venues to the point where being a punching bag doesnt hurt its business model, then I think we have a broken system here.Proposition Joe said:
1) Many of the fees are going back to the artist, so there's incentive for them to make it look like their tickets are cheaper and it's just the Ticketmaster punching bag that is charging the fees.
2) All-in pricing only works if every one does it, which requires legislation. If you're "all-in" and everyone else is "pre-fees", then everyone else will look like a cheaper ticket. Sure, you find the truth once you get to the final checkout page -- but there's plenty of data that shows you have gone a long way to capturing the sale once customer gets to the check out screen.
I agree all-in would be better, but I also don't like to see legislation.